So has anybody got this all together in some reasonable format that could be zipped up? I'm still struggling to get it all to work right and look presentable in XBMC. The race has started and I need to get things working!

Last year Britain's Jenson Button took the chequered flag by 12 seconds in a race that began in damp conditions.
The 2009 world champion gambled early on by switching his McLaren to dry tyres, it was a decision that moved him into second place, and when polesitter Sebastian Vettel's day ended in a gravel trap, Button inherited the lead and never looked back.
The now-injured Robert Kubica finished second in his Renault, with the Ferrari of Felipe Massa completing the podium.

I was just dreaming of a streaming website that contained videos of every F1 race and included classic races with an XBMC plugin (I'd pay for this if it existed). Something like Icefilms would work for this and it has a few races that are available from last year, so if anyone wants to upload more content to Mega *cough* you'd be my best friend

When I go into TV Shows I have a icon for formula one but it is doesn't contain anything. Yet when I go into file mode I can play the file without any problems? Does anyone have any ideas on why the race isn't showing up?

Ya I had a hell of a time getting it working.
I don't remember what I did to get it all working exactly.
First off do you have XBMC set up to scan for new content at startup?
If you don't you prolly should.
Also try going in to TV shows, hit C and select update library.
Barring that, I'd say post your tvshow NFO and episode NFO.
I'll compare it to mine.

@purplehaze
I had same issue, solved it by same tinkering
The season-episode numbering had to be s11e01 or like i put it 1101 - Australia.*
201101 wouldnot work.
Officially, The 2011 Formula One season is the 62nd FIA Formula One season
So s62e01 would be more relevant.

@hoobie7
I got the actor (driver) names up and running in the tvshow.nfo file
It need not be duplicated in all the race (episode) nfo.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<tvshow>
<title>FiA Formula 1 2011</title>
<rating>10.00001</rating>
<year>2011</year>
<season>2011</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<displayseason>2011</displayseason>
<plot>If you thought that 2010 was a classic year of F1, buckle up and get ready for the 2011 season

in which four or even five teams seem set to go head-to-head as no fewer than five world champions go

into battle, and the midfield fight promises to be harder-fought than ever</plot>
<genre>Sports</genre>
<premiered>2011-03-27</premiered>
<studio>Formula One Management</studio>
<trailer></trailer>
<actor>
<name>Sebastian Vettel</name>

Quote:<episodedetails>
<title>Qantas Australian Grand Prix</title>
<rating>10.00</rating>
<season>2011</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<plot>The 1st Round of the 2011 FiA Formula 1 Championship
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel got his world championship defence off to the best possible start in Albert Park on Sunday evening. The German beat Lewis Hamilton’s KERS-assisted rush as they had a drag race to the first corner, and thereafter that was all she wrote</plot>
<credits>BBC</credits>
<director>BBC</director>
<aired>2011-03-27</aired>
<studio>BBC</studio>
</episodedetails>

The Plot has some spoilers though....
Sourced from official f1 website

crooksy Wrote:I was just dreaming of a streaming website that contained videos of every F1 race and included classic races with an XBMC plugin (I'd pay for this if it existed). Something like Icefilms would work for this and it has a few races that are available from last year, so if anyone wants to upload more content to Mega *cough* you'd be my best friend

I toitally agree.. Or even the ability to stream the live practice sessions etc would be fantastic.

The bbc sport website (and red button) shows the practice 1, 2 and 3 which i cant stream as i have no plugin for the bbc sport stuff or the red button (iplayer only shows the delayed stuff after it has aired) :-(

Plus to stream the live races i have to use TVCatch up which has pretty poor quality compaired to the live feeds online and the red button... Is there no way to have access to the red button "live" via xbmc or for us to stream all the practice sessions via bbc sport website directly into xbmc?

Aaargh! Guardian.co.uk just spoiled Malaysia for me before I had a chance to see it

Ralts, I think your syntax is a little off in tvshow.nfo as it didn't work for me. For example, I see that the <tvshow> tag isn't properly closed at the end. A few changes and it's looking good in Ember Media Manager, but I'm waiting to load Malaysia before I double-check in XBMC...

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<tvshow xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<title>FiA Formula 1</title>
<rating>10.00001</rating>
<year>2011</year>
<plot>If you thought 2010 was a classic year of F1, buckle up and get ready for the 2011 season in which four or even five teams seem set to go head-to-head as no fewer than five world champions go into battle, and the midfield fight promises to be harder-fought than ever</plot>
<genre>Sports</genre>
<premiered>2011-03-27</premiered>
<studio>Formula One Management</studio>
<trailer></trailer>
<actor>
<name>Sebastian Vettel</name>